jpdaigle

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by jpdaigle 2y ago
I’m so sorry.
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by jpdaigle 3y ago
The tricky requirement that ends up existing and torpedoing attempts to clean up feature flags is a requirement for long-term holdback. e.g. "Test was successful so it's rolling out to all users, minus a 0.5% holdback population f
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by jpdaigle 3y ago
The exact same point applies to Twitter's 3rdparty API getting killed off, and both moves are still a mystery. It'd be easy to say "as a condition of getting this API key, you agree to display ad elements as they are served i
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by jpdaigle 3y ago
Yes, it would be interesting, because you'd expect materials to cost roughly the same wherever you are in the country (modulo shipping costs), and cost of labor to account for much of the city to city difference. A former landlord of m
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by jpdaigle 4y ago
Any hash calculations using a "read from stdin or a pipe" strategy, in my experience, is fraught with issues caused by an extra newline at the end of the input possibly being there today, and not in later checks, or vice-versa. Wh
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by jpdaigle 4y ago
I'm shocked and disappointed at how expensive retrofitting insulation into a minimally insulated 1930s Bay Area house actually is. I estimate gas heating costs at around 2500$ / year (nov-march), while insulating floors, walls and
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by jpdaigle 4y ago
I thought I’d like the OpenComms but the Bluetooth stuff seems flaky. Not sure if this is everyone or just me, but if you pair them to 2 devices (e.g. a phone and a laptop), then shut down one of those, the Aftershokz will beep every few se
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by jpdaigle 4y ago
Some product categories seem to have the middle of the market (quality wise) hollow out and disappear, so all you've got left is the low-end crap and high-end pricy versions, with no middle-range left. One example: try to buy a nice me
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by jpdaigle 4y ago
The Palo Alto school meals are by no means healthy. At least at my kindergartner’s school last year, nothing’s really prepared onsite, it’s mostly microwave-in-a-bag fast food (factory made burritos, pizza, 2-ingredient sandwiches). Often t
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by jpdaigle 4y ago
> Also, you can call the place in advance and just come to pick it up, no wait time I suspect both the orderer and order-taker are both a bit happier to have orders come in online instead of taking calls. It enables a bit more asynchron
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by jpdaigle 4y ago
How do you do present window sharing to a Meet call? Using OBS gives you a very flexible way to stack a window capture with video sources, composite them, etc, yes, but your output is then routed through the virtual camera driver and sent t
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by jpdaigle 4y ago
> It’s frustrating, because you have sunk cost in entering the employment agreement It's even more precarious for US immigrants where many types of immigrant visa (H1B, L1, TN) are tied to continuing to hold a specific job. Don&#x27
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by jpdaigle 4y ago
I'm not sure how regulation can hope to really solve this when the problem isn't that an employer is forcing anything on you, but usually more one where your coworkers are independently making decisions about out-of-hours availabi
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by jpdaigle 5y ago
I think of this more like: Just while you're not offering your work for sale in a country, then we all just agree as a society to look the other way as it's pirated. But you can end this get out of jail free card at any time by pr
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by jpdaigle 5y ago
How do you propose someone actually review VPN services? All of them work, have many countries available as egress points, and are fast enough. The only actual differentiation is in attributes that are impossible to measure from the outside
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by jpdaigle 5y ago
Isn't that basically a "no true Scotsman" fallacy, though? I can completely believe both sides of this: the original Fishkin article, and this rebuttal which claims that "actually, marketers are competent and knowledgeab
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by jpdaigle 5y ago
If you're in tech, things are changing so rapidly I don't think it's realistic to walk away for 15 years and then be able to come back and get hired as a practicing, competent engineer, unless you've been keeping up on p
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by jpdaigle 5y ago
What's incomprehensible to me about the Tether saga is: the idea of a stablecoin pegged to USD is so incredibly useful as a bridge between financial systems... why go through all the trouble and risk of doing it fraudulently when you
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by jpdaigle 5y ago
As a child in the 80s/early 90s I played little league baseball. Our annual fundraising drive would get capped off by a random draw amongst all the players on the team, performed by the coach at home, and he'd tell us at the next
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by jpdaigle 5y ago
No dual bluetooth. For some reason, the current crop of streaming devices all fail the use case of: 2 people want to watch a movie on headphones, without waking the kids. The current solution to this is airpods, where each person gets eithe
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by jpdaigle 5y ago
> Even worse when your romantic partner has different goals in life, as happened here. What stings (as I can't help but empathize with the author's feelings) in reading this blog is that it sounds like they were very aligned fi
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by jpdaigle 6y ago
A counter-argument I've read to the dark forest theory is that: * spectroscopic analysis can show that our atmosphere is oxygen-rich, and this can be detected from a range of many light-years away * oxygen-rich atmospheres probably ind
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by jpdaigle 6y ago
The one time I've tried doing this sort of "publish hash first, plaintext later" scheme, verification was hard because the hashing is vulnerable to whether or not the reader adds a newline after the text, a CR vs a CRLF, etc.
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by jpdaigle 6y ago
Wouldn't it make sense for the basket of goods used to compute CPI to try to blend the impact of rents (which are included) with "affordability" of buying a house (maybe measured as the carrying costs of an average property p
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by jpdaigle 6y ago
Oh yes. I'd love to be able to hook up Google Assistant devices to my iCloud reminders lists, so that "remind me tomorrow to call the doctor" spoken to the Google Home would just nicely become an iOS reminder.
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by jpdaigle 6y ago
I'm kinda surprised that food delivery apps and ride-hailing apps are all money-losing. Why? It's a modernization of an already-proven business model. Chinese food and pizza was orderable by phone, and delivered for free or a smal
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by jpdaigle 6y ago
I have the same problem: I tried in 2020 to play the games of my childhood (Super Mario Bros 3 being a favourite) on an emulator, and I keep dying in the early, easy, levels. I'm 30 years older than when I first played the game, am I t
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by jpdaigle 6y ago
> it's not like it's a mystery that childbirth is painful and that raising children is a mostly miserable affair As someone with toddlers I'll take a stab at an explanation: we thought we went in with eyes open, but it t
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by jpdaigle 6y ago
Fascinating, but wasn’t... Dropbox supposed to have client-side encryption? If the backend is recompressing JPG images, that means it has full access to the file’s plaintext. That’s a bit uncomfortable.
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by jpdaigle 6y ago
Water heaters and furnaces can be leased instead of purchased, for a few dollars a month. (But it's more expensive in the long run.) What's different about a furnace vs a fridge or dishwasher?

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